After we were finally all seated we got our packs and started opening them. My tournament pack was pretty decent, but of course I got shafted again with a foil land as the foil. This has happened to me in the last 5 pre-releases that I played. I either got no foil at all or a foil land. The Timeshifted cards were really cool. I got Call of the Herd

cards are now taking up the spot of a common, so it is now possible to get 2 rares in a booster pack, 1 regular and 1 foil. The booster packs were pretty decent also, especially when I opened the Scion of Ur-Dragon. I also ended up with Shadow Guildmage

I started going through the cards to see what was there to play. It wasn't really all super great, but I noticed I had quite a few slivers and I really wanted to play Scion of the Ur-Dragon, so I decided to be unconventional and build a 5 color sliver deck. After lots of debate I ended up playing a 46 card deck mainly because I wanted to fit enough lands in to make sure I could play all my colors.

After I was done building I figured that if I would win 1 game that day I should consider myself lucky, but I came to the pre-release to have fun, so building this fun deck was just what I wanted to do.

The deck ended up performing very well. The first game in round 1 I won pretty easily with both of my Castle

Raptor at home to defend. Game 2 went pretty much the same way. Slivers to the beatdown and another 2-0 victory. I really couldn't stop laughing that my deck was performing so well. In previous pre-releases my deckbuilds were mostly not good enough to win more than 1 round and now this silly 5 color deck was doing really well.

The 3rd round I played against another Sliver deck. He only had 3 colors though, but our Slivers complemented each other very well and the first game was pretty tight, but I was able to finish it off with a Tribal Flames

for 5. Game 2 went all the way until time was called and 5 turns to go. In turn 3 my opponent attacked with everything, I blocked and saved most of my critters, but was down to 2 life. He was at 12 and I had enough critters left to deal 9 points of damage and Tribal Flames

. So I Tribal Flamed him anyway, but in his last turn he beat me down for the last 2 points, so a draw this round. Not too bad 2-0-1 so far.

Round 4, the last round, I was seated at table 2 and playing one of the best players in my area. This last round was pretty bad. My deck finally fell apart. My opening hand was 5 colors of land, Scion of the Ur-Dragon and Call of the Herd

, so I decided to keep it. The next 7 turns I drew a land, so my opponent beat me to pulp pretty quickly after he killed my dragon and my elephants. Game 2 was pretty much the same. I ended up drawing 6 lands in 8 turns after keeping an opening hand with 4 colors of mana and was beat down pretty quickly again.

All in all not a bad day. I ended up winning 3 packs and had a great day of fun. Afterwards I played some casual games with some friends and called it a day.

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